Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro

Are you ready to talk about a miracle this morning?...... Some of you are skeptical.... some of you are ready for the amen!..... Prayer is not magic incantations.... Prayer is a miracle at work within your heart.

Let’s look this morning at the next phrase of Jesus’ model prayer.....

We pray like this.....

Matthew 6:10 “10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”

Prayer Changes things......

But what does it change?

1.

The Top Priority

What does Jesus mean when he says “Kingdom?”

Definition of God’s Kingdom

a. God has dominion over all the Earth.....

b.

God’s kingdom is.....

“God’s people, in God’s place, under God’s rule.” - Graeme Goldsworthy

a. Eden

b.

Israel

c. Kingdom of Heaven - Inaugurated with Jesus

d.

Consumation of the Kingdom at the return of Jesus in Revelation

What is Jesus asking God in prayer here?

..... the fulfiment of God’s Kingdom..... namely through Jesus himself!

OT prophecy pointed to Jesus being this King of the Kingdom....

Isaiah 9:6 “6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

Jesus spoke of the kingdom as his main teaching and ministry!

1. Jesus inaugurates the kingdom.

*List from TGC PHILLIP BETHANCOURT

2. Jesus is the kingdom.

Luke 17:21 (ESV)

21 nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”

3. Jesus purposes the kingdom.

Jesus reveals that his purpose is to proclaim the kingdom.

Luke 4:43 “43 but he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose.””

4. Jesus declares the kingdom.

Luke 8:1 “1 Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God.

And the twelve were with him,”

5. Jesus demonstrates the kingdom.

Luke 11:20 “20 But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.”

6. Jesus deploys the kingdom.

Luke 10:9 “9 Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’” in sending out his disciples.

7. Jesus transforms the kingdom.

John 6:15 “15 Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.”

John 18:36 “36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world.

If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews.

But my kingdom is not from the world.””

8. Jesus purchases the kingdom.

Colossians 2:14-15 “14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands.

This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.”

9. Jesus concludes with the kingdom.

Acts 1:6-8 “6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.

8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.””

10.

Jesus returns the kingdom.

Rev 19:16 “16 On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.”

What are we asking when we ask for the “Kingdom to Come?”

1.)

For evangelism to be widespread!

Colossians 1:13 “13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,”

Luke 10:1-2 “1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. 2 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

J.I. Packer.....

This request says.... “START WITH ME”...... USE ME FOR THE KINGDOM TO COME!

2.) For Jesus to come again!

Matthew 24:14 (ESV)

14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

2. Wrestling With God

Wrestling between the extreme views of God’s will.

a.

If I do not pray, God will not will it?

b.

Why should I pray if God will already will it?

Should you pray then?

ABSOLUTELY!

The Bible clearly gives us an understanding of God’s Sovereign will.... His decisions that are over all of creation..... Genesis 1 God created everything through the power of His will.... he sustains all things.... etc.

God’s reveled Will.... what God desires from us.... Exodus 20 and the 10 commandments.

We see this in the will that all men would come to faith in Jesus 1 Timothy 2:4 “4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

Jesus is asking here.... we are to ask that God’s will would be done in:

He is asking the Father to reshape the hearts of every single person such that God is obeyed and glorified by men on earth as the angels obey and glorify God in heaven.

Excerpt from: "The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down: The Lord's Prayer as a Manifesto for Revolution" by R. Albert Mohler, Jr.

Wrestling between our will and God’s will

a.

His Will above all else

Jesus is the ultimate example of this truth....

b.

We are changed when God answers our prayer

Our Prayer meeting this fall..... How has God answered our prayers this Fall..... Yes, No, Not yet.....

If you were to do this exercise, what would be the result?...... Encouraged to continue in prayer!

Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of working miracles in a person’s inner nature.

- Oswald Chambers